University of Arizona High Performance Computing
UA High Performance Computing (HPC) is an interdisciplinary research center. The mission is to enable research and discoveries that advance sciences and technologies. UA HPC deploys and operates advanced computing and data resources to enable computational and data-enabled research activities of students, faculty, and staff at the University of Arizona. UA HPC also provides consulting, technical documentation, and training to support users of these resources.
This site is divided into sections that describe the High Performance Computing (HPC) resources that are available; how to use them; and the rules for use.
| Getting Started | Resources | Policies |
|---|---|---|
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Maintenance downtime is scheduled from 6AM to 7PM on February 20 | |
| Maintenance downtime is scheduled from 8 AM to 6 PM on October 31. | |
| Maintenance downtime is scheduled from 8 AM to 6 PM on July 25. No impact on jobs running on ElGato is expected. | |
Multiple Dates | Multiple network maintenance events for campus are summarized here |
| Maintenance downtime is scheduled from 6 am to 6 pm on April 25. | |
| Debug queue is added to support testing code or trying script options. It has higher priority but short limits. | |
| 46 nodes with Nvidia GPU's are available for standard and windfall use. | |
| Maintenance downtime is scheduled for January 24 and 25 | |
| The 2012 systems (cluster, smp, and htc) have been powered off as scheduled. | |
| We are taking delivery of 46 new Ocelote nodes with Nvidia P100 GPU's that will be available to campus researchers, probably early February. |
| We offer a new web portal called Open OnDemand which includes Jupyter notebooks and a nifty file browser | |
| Scheduled maintenance. Ocelote compute node, login node, fileserver and hpc.arizona.edu bastion host patching and required reboots; El-Gato will be inaccessible at times during this window due to bastion updates. Legacy systems (ICE, SMP, HTC) will be rebooted after fileserver updates as well. |
| Scheduled maintenance. Compute node upgrades. Complete |
| Maintenance on the storage array affecting the Ocelote system, the Globus DTNs, the El Gato GPU cluster, and the legacy smp/cluster/htc systems. The maintenance is expected to run from 6am-6pm |
| HPC/El-Gato/Ocelote down 6AM on 22 February until at least 6PM on 23 February for storage system expansion and filesystem maintenance. | |
| Maintenance Outage (ocelote, hpc.arizona.edu, sftp.hpc only intermittent outages) 6AM to 6PM | |
| Maintenance Outage 8AM to 6PM | |
| Maintenance Outage 8AM to 5PM | |
| Grand Opening of Ocelote 3pm | |
| Storage Maintenance - no expected interruptions. |
| Ocelote and the bastion host hpc.arizona.edu |
Next scheduled maintenance window for | |
| Pilot users starting on new cluster |
Intel 2016 Compiler is available on ocelote via | |
| Configuration preparation begins. Pilot users are planned for mid-April | |
| Testing ends - it is officially ours. Performance testing begins |
The new cluster is installed. Acceptance testing begins | |
| Our new cluster is delivered. Installation will take most of the week |